Legal Opinion
West Virginia Oil & Gas Co., Inc. v. George E. Breece Lumber Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1954No. 14960PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WRIGHT, District Judge.
Plaintiff, West Virginia Oil & Gas Co., Inc., a Louisiana corporation, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by which it seeks to correct certain errors alleged to exist in a compromise agreement and a judgment based thereon entered by that court in 1945. The errors relate wholly to descriptions of real estate. The District Court sustained a motion to dismiss on the ground that indispensable parties are not before the court and could not be without ousting its jurisdiction.
From the allegations of the complaint which…
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